homo sapiens

The old issues of power, stratification and territoriality seem to be inherent in the species Homo Sapiens.

追求权力、社会分成阶层以及捍卫自己的领地这样的老问题其实是人类社会固有的问题。

You can actually trace this sort of connection across the world, wherever modern 'homo sapiens' turns up.

事实上，你可以轻易地在全世界任何现代“智人”所到之处寻找到这种联系的踪影。

For two-thirds of its history, Homo sapiens lived exclusively in Africa. Only now are the details of that period becoming clear.

历史上现代智人有三分之二的时期独自生活在非洲，而直到现在，那段时期的细节才被了解。

Our ancestors from pre-Homo Sapiens times seem to have given fire a ritual significance.

前智人时期的祖先似乎把火作为一种宗教象征。

If that series of circumstances had been even slightly different, there would have been no egg-headed Homo sapiens.

如果环境有一丝不同的话，很可能就不会出现顶着个鸡蛋脑袋的现代智人。

It used to be thought that modern humans, Homo Sapiens, replaced or killed off Neanderthal humans, Homo Neanderthalensis.

过去人们常常认为现代人取代或者消灭了穴居人。

Homo sapiens did not evolve with cookies and soda at the fingertips.

我们可能会说，当今时代的人不是伴随着指尖的饼干和苏打进化而来。

If I had to reduce the essence of Homo sapiens to five words, "people do complicated things together" would do.

如果不得不将现代人的本质概括为五个单词，大概就是“共同从事复杂工作的人”。

Homo sapiens has been creating technological curses throughout history, and has so far managed to cope with every challenge thrown up.

智人在历史上曾经对技术进行诅咒，现在还在尽力处理由此带来的每一次挑战。

It is just us the Homo sapiens, gifted with a mind capable of stimulating our entire biology with a mere sight of intimacy.

这就是我们神奇的人类，天生就只要一有亲密的动作就可唤醒我们整个的生理机制。

But the African crested rat and Homo sapiens are the only two mammals who use plants to make their poisons.

但是非洲黄冠鼠和人类是仅有的两种会利用植物来获取毒素的哺乳动物。

Ross: Okay, I have a problem. I have to go into work for a few hours. Some kids messed up the Homo sapiens display.

我得去博物馆一趟，几个小时。有群小孩把人类展览弄得乱七八糟的。

Neanderthals turn out to have the same version of FOXP2 as Homo sapiens (and thus a different one from chimpanzees).

尼安德特人同人类有同样版本的FOXP2（然而在猩猩中却又不同）。

Our modern human species, 'homo sapiens' ('thinking man' in the Latin), evolved in Africa at least 150, 000 years ago.

我们的现在人种“智人”（拉丁语中意为“有思想的人”）是至少约十五万年前，在非洲进化而来的。

Homo sapiens is also the only species that has developed formal ways to enhance learning: teachers, schools, and curricula.

人也是唯一一个形成了教师、学校和课程这样一种正规方式去增强学习的物种。

"Homo sapiens will become extinct, perhaps within 100 years, " he said.

“智人可能会在100年内灭绝，”他说。

Each of those discoveries further narrowed the perceived gap of intelligence and culture between Homo sapiens and Pan troglodytes.

这些发现进一步缩小了人类与黑猩猩在智力和文化上的认知差异。

By this time, Homo sapiens was definitely on the scene as a sophisticated hunter-gatherer.

那时，人类当然是聪明的狩猎者和采集者。

Should we not have matured beyond that after four billion years of slow evolution from simple-celled prokaryotes to homo sapiens?

我们经过了40亿年从简单的单细胞慢慢进化成高级的现代智能人类，难道我们仍然无法超越被物质摆布的漩涡？

The small difference in the size of males and females would put them in the same company as Homo erectus and Homo sapiens.

男性和女性尺寸上的细微差别是可以将他们从同一堆人中区分出直立人和智人。